California lawmakers are proposing tougher penalties on looting and other opportunistic crimes during disasters after more ...

Flames from the Hughes fire came within a mile of the Castaic jails before firefighters pushed them back. Inmate advocates ...

Lawmakers want to make impersonating firefighters a felony as convicted arsonist Dustin Nehl, 31, and his wife Jenni, 44, an ...

The Bureau of Prisons confirmed it is detaining some immigrants arrested under Trump’s latest enforcement efforts, reviving a practice that faced legal challenges during his first term.

A Los Angeles police sergeant was arrested in connection with a hit-and-run that killed a 19-year-old man early Saturday ...

The amount the county paid to outside attorneys rose 18% from the previous year to $75 million — nearly double what the ...

Tony Garcia, charged in 2023 in the 1981 murders of former East Hartford resident Lisa Gondek and another woman in California ...

Last week, President Trump signed into law the Laken Riley Act, which requires the attorney general to detain any non-citizen ...

Two devastating wildfires in Los Angeles were declared fully contained by firefighters on Friday after burning for more than three weeks, killing about 30 people and displacing thousands more.

Inmates involved in jail attack face charges Advocates say jail safety needs to be reexamined Victim in the jail attack is on life support and is in critical condition SAN JOSE, Calif.

He was booked into the Sutter County Jail. Cecilia Montiel, 40, of Live Oak, was arrested by the Sutter County Sheriff’s Office at 6:54 a.m. on Jan. 29 at a private Live Oak residence ...

The vast majority of those offenses were committed by the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department (LASD), which was responsible for 6,789 of the violations. The LASD committed thousands of abuses by ...